Mediating Queer and Trans Pasts: The Homosaurus as Queer Information Activism

IF 4.2 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2022-05-15 DOI:10.1080/1369118X.2022.2072753

Marika Cifor, K. Rawson

引用次数: 7

Abstract

ABSTRACT Libraries and archives have long been rich sites of exploration for LGBTQ+ people in search of self-understanding, identification, shared experience, and community. Yet the information infrastructures that guide every quest for queer and trans information remain silently powerful mediators of our research processes. Through an extended discussion of the Homosaurus, an international LGBTQ linked data vocabulary that the authors helped to develop, this article explores how queer information activism can confront the impoverished tools available for describing queer and trans resources. By focusing on both “corrective” and “analytic” strategies, the authors argue that the Homosaurus must work to expand the queer and trans terminology available for subject description while still challenging the structure and process of classificatory systems as always in tension with our queer aspirations.

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介导酷儿与跨Pasts：作为酷儿信息激进主义的恐龙

摘要图书馆和档案馆长期以来一直是LGBTQ+人群探索自我理解、认同、分享经验和社区的丰富场所。然而，指导每一次寻找酷儿和跨性别信息的信息基础设施仍然是我们研究过程中无声的强大媒介。通过对作者帮助开发的与LGBTQ相关的国际数据词汇Homosaurus的深入讨论，本文探讨了酷儿信息激进主义如何面对描述酷儿和跨性别资源的贫困工具。通过关注“纠正”和“分析”策略，作者认为，同性恋者必须努力扩展可用于主题描述的酷儿和跨性别术语，同时仍然挑战分类系统的结构和过程，因为它总是与我们的酷儿愿望相矛盾。

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来源期刊

Information Communication & Society Multiple-

CiteScore

10.20

自引率

4.80%

发文量

110

期刊介绍： Drawing together the most current work upon the social, economic, and cultural impact of the emerging properties of the new information and communications technologies, this journal positions itself at the centre of contemporary debates about the information age. Information, Communication & Society (iCS) transcends cultural and geographical boundaries as it explores a diverse range of issues relating to the development and application of information and communications technologies (ICTs), asking such questions as: -What are the new and evolving forms of social software? What direction will these forms take? -ICTs facilitating globalization and how might this affect conceptions of local identity, ethnic differences, and regional sub-cultures? -Are ICTs leading to an age of electronic surveillance and social control? What are the implications for policing criminal activity, citizen privacy and public expression? -How are ICTs affecting daily life and social structures such as the family, work and organization, commerce and business, education, health care, and leisure activities? -To what extent do the virtual worlds constructed using ICTs impact on the construction of objects, spaces, and entities in the material world? iCS analyses such questions from a global, interdisciplinary perspective in contributions of the very highest quality from scholars and practitioners in the social sciences, gender and cultural studies, communication and media studies, as well as in the information and computer sciences.